what myth grossed you out the most
the pigs in the car the pigs in the car
yeah i've got time to tell the story uh it's not going to take up the next 15 minutes or anything
but the grossest story we ever did was a myth about a guy who had uh he had died in his car
and his car was like some kind of classic car and he died and wasn't discovered for three months
and so he decomposed into the car and the myth is that that car could not be resold
and because the smell obvi um so we this was our first dead animal myth i just said that
sentence this is our first dead animal myth and um we were really clear we didn't just
we needed two animals to decompose the animals that are closest to humans in the way that they
decompose and in their overall makeup of muscle and fat are pigs we didn't want to just buy a
couple of pigs from the butcher and then waste 250 pounds of meat so we found this place in la
that will find you dead animals and they do this for movies where it's frequently cheaper to get a
dead animal than to make a dead animal um but what they do is they have relationships with all these
farms in the greater los angeles area and they get calls when an animal dies and so you kind of tell
them hey in a couple of weeks i'm going to need a couple of pigs and somebody calls him and said we
just had two pigs die and they call us and say we got two pigs for you we found out at like 5 p.m
on a on a i don't know probably a tuesday something like that we find out at 5 00 p.m
so we take we grab one of our pas and we're like dude
you you're driving to la and you're gonna pick up a package and this poor pa
it might have actually been scott sorensen who later became our a cameraman um
i think it might have been scott okay at any rate that pa got in their car drove to la
they left san francisco about 5 30 pm which means they arrived in l.a at about midnight
they met up with this farmer in the middle of farm country outside of la to help that farmer transfer
two human-sized dead pigs into the back of his pickup truck and then
drive immediately back to san francisco so we could film with them the next morning
he said that that transfer was one of the most upsetting things he's ever done
just the transferring dead bodies in the middle of the night on the edge of a farm he's like
this is horrifying driving all the way back to san francisco so we take these two dead pigs
i don't think we put them in clothing but we put them in the uh in the front driver's seat and
passenger seat of i think a corvette we wanted a car that we could afford but also was considered a
classic we spent like five grand on this corvette and we put the two pegs in it and then we um we
sealed up the doors with packing tape because we didn't want the smell to upset our neighbors
obviously and then um we further hid the car inside a 20-foot truck container that we rented
we rented it and then we left it there for three months
there's so much around this um the expert we hired for that episode is named neil smither neil
smither is known as the crime scene cleaner he got a lot of attention back in the early aughts for
um for his business uh he literally cleans up
suicides killings meth labs and he has a huge business doing this and the way he discovered
that this was the business he wanted to be in was while watching pulp fiction the scene where john
travolta shoots the kid uh uh he shoots the kid in the back seat and then they gotta clean it out
and neil was watching that scene and he was like this is what i have to do for a living it's a very
strange origin story and yet he built a really amazing company doing that so neil was our expert
we pulled that corvette out of the out of the truck container well actually no we didn't pull
the corvette out of the truck container because we had a problem the problem is we put the pigs
in the in the car and then we pushed it into the container and then we pulled the emergency brake
so those pegs decomposed with the emergency brakes still on and then we couldn't get the car out of
the container until somebody climbed into the car and released the emergency brake and so jamie did
this and we're wearing like i don't even know what they were but you know we're wearing full hazmat
suits and jamie like opens the door and slides in and immediately starts to choke because there's no
oxygen left in the car it's all ammonia from the decomposition so we get a couple of fans and we
can blow it out a little and then jamie has to sit he did not sit on the pig because on was not an
option it is more like a mug yeah that's the best way to describe it because these the
pigs after three months sealed in this car were no longer um pigs they were pig-shaped mounds
of hairy boney pudding that is yeah you asked that is exactly what they were it's
so we get the car out we open the door and the smell everyone's got the peppermint under their
nose everyone's wearing masks everyone's wretching it is just horrendous and neil smither the crime
scene cleaner is staying about 50 feet away and laughing his ass off he's like oh man that is
wrong he's like this is up there with the worst thing i've ever seen and he has seen some things
and there's this key moment in this story when um we're about to start scooping the pigs
out of the car and get rid of them and this is pig head sitting there and neil goes out of adam and
he gets my attention and i look over and again i'm wearing full sealed in with duct tape in
this hazmat suit he's like dude i will pay you 5 000 cash today if you lick this now to that pig
i thought about it and i said no you're watching this and you think dude i would have said yes
i'm here to tell you no you wouldn't you just wouldn't you literally just wouldn't you would
because oh by the way he's he said i don't want none of this
none of that he's like i want you lick the snout of that pig you would hate your tongue for the
rest of your life like you would not have been sorry 5 000 bucks not enough to go through that
yeah that was the most disgusting story we shot on mythbusters welcome
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